In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated

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commit f40abc997d245cb9516bc71ad192596d10097972
Author: Karl Williamson <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Feb 10 21:26:55 2017 -0700

    sv.h: Add comment
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Summary of changes:
 sv.h | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sv.h b/sv.h
index 6227d46a0a..82130b7fc0 100644
--- a/sv.h
+++ b/sv.h
@@ -155,7 +155,10 @@ typedef enum {
 /* *** any alterations to the SV types above need to be reflected in
  * SVt_MASK and the various PL_valid_types_* tables.  As of this writing those
  * tables are in perl.h.  There are also two affected names tables in dump.c,
- * one in B.xs, and 'bodies_by_type[]' in sv.c */
+ * one in B.xs, and 'bodies_by_type[]' in sv.c.
+ *
+ * The bits that match 0xf0 are CURRENTLY UNUSED, except that 0xFF means a
+ * freed SV.  The bits above that are for flags, like SVf_IOK */
 
 #define SVt_MASK 0xf   /* smallest bitmask that covers all types */
 

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